How do I find out about concerts? How do I get more details about something I heard over the air? How do I submit events to WORT’s Music Calendars? Who do I contact with changes or cancellations?

WORT’s Music Calendars are a great resource to find out about concerts in all genres and places. Usually you’ll find details in the online listing or links to get more information. There’s a link to to submit your event at the top of the calendar page. You can also submit events, changes and cancellations to calendar@wortfm.org.

Contact Information

Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

Live Music Recap: WORT Night at Central Park Sessions

“WORT Night” was Thursday August 3 at the Central Park Sessions. WORT was broadcasting and streaming live from the concert, in spite of a bit of rain.The live remote began at 5 pm and included all three bands, with DJ The Real Jaguar hosting and spinning between sets from the station. The night’s proceeds from the liquor and raffle ticket sales went to benefit WORT, and we greatly appreciate the support of all the attendees.

This is how the evening broke down:

Beth Kille

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Live remote broadcast and stream with Beth Kille.

Kille is a 22-time Madison Area Music Association (MAMA) award-winning artist from Madison, WI who has been cranking out Americana Rock tunes since the turn of the century. From the intimacy of house concerts and coffeehouses, to rockin’ out with her band at summer festivals, her passion for performance shines through in all settings. Her power on stage was recognized in 2011 when she received Artist of the Year honors at the Madison Area Music Awards. She has also been honored twice with the MAMA for Female Vocalist of the Year (’06, ’10) and was nominated for Singer-Songwriter of the Year (’14) by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry.

6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Set break. WORT DJ The Real Jaguar of Who Cooks For You? spinning music live from the station..

6:30 pm -7:45 pm: Samantha Fish.

Samantha Fish

Fish is well known for her accomplished blues repetoire but her real love is raw, scrappy rock and roll. Her new album, Chills & Fever (released March 17, 2017) ventures off in a new direction born from traveling to Detroit and joining forces with the Detroit Cobras, a band whose insurgent ethic has made them big names in the Midwest punk/blues scene. Her previous albums include Girls with Guitars, Runaway, Black Wind Howlin’ and Wild Heart.

7:45 pm – 8:30 pm: Set break. WORT DJ The Real Jaguar of Who Cooks For You? spinning music live from the station.

Foxygen

8:30 pm – 9:40 pm: Foxygen and Star Power.

Jonathan Rado and Sam France were only 15 years old when they formed Foxygen. The group has released four albums, a number of self-released EPs, and never fail to impress audiences with insane live shows and the odd behavior of lead singer, France. As Foxygen puts it, “Foxygen is the Big Bang of two combusting minds. It’s the splayed Galaxy of polar geniuses Sam France and Jonathan Rado. It’s a handshake with a knife behind your back. A cosmic, Californian death-game of highway chicken. A sleepless night in a five star hotel. Truth or dare. Foxygen is the risk of pushing your best friend off the ledge just to see if they can fly.” —Right. Are you ready for that?

You can listen to any of the bands or the whole show on our archives right here. Thanks to our regular Thursday evening lineup for giving up their time last week so we could bring you this live music and WORT’s Local News, The Perpetual Notion Machine science show, Radio Literature, and Psychoacoustics will all be back for their regular time slots this Thursday, August 10.